Shiro is a seeing-eye dog whose blind master is run over by a truck. The master re-appears to Shiro and says he can't enter heaven until he has done a good deed so he grants Shiro one wish.  Shiro wants to be human so he can visit the girl who raised him as a pup. Complications arise when the human Shiro falls in love with the girl who is now grown up. A fantasy comedy with a good canine performance by actor Toyokawa.

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A seeing-eye dog name Shiro is granted one wish by his former, now dead owner. Shiro chooses to become a human for a short time so he can find the girl who trained him as a puppy. While attempting to get to know her [as he runs along behind her and sniffs for her around town] he eventually falls in love with her.

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